{"id":1376,"date":"2019-11-02T15:04:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T15:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2023-03-27T15:51:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:51:06","slug":"at-the-law-school-the-d-a-talks-about-law-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2019\/11\/02\/at-the-law-school-the-d-a-talks-about-law-school\/","title":{"rendered":"At the law school, the D.A. talks about law school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYeah, law school sucks a little bit, right?\u201d Satana Deberry said to a room full of Duke law students. Her audience chuckled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Durham district attorney spoke Thursday to Social Justice Lawyering, a class co-taught by Anne Gordon and Jesse McCoy, attorneys with backgrounds in public interest law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A graduate of Duke Law School herself, Deberry admitted that she told her parents after her first reading assignment that she was bound to flunk out. \u201cEvery word in those 10 pages was English, but together they made no sense,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The students she was addressing have experienced their own challenges in adapting to law school.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor Gordon said that many wrote personal essays about how law school is much different than they expected. They entered with goals of pursuing justice and making a difference, but they feel \u201csocial pressure, pressures even from the (school) administration and faculty\u201d to choose less civic-minded paths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The district attorney said she could relate to that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDuke has a certain corporate bent that you may or may not know before you get here,\u201d Deberry said. She also mentioned that the lack of diversity in student aspirations corresponds to a lack of diversity in the student body.\u00a0 \u201cWhen I was here &#8211; I don\u2019t know how it is now &#8211; but there were only 12 black kids in my class,\u201d Deberry said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the Social Justice Lawyering class was racially diverse, Duke Law\u2019s student body is actually not much different than 25 years ago when Deberry graduated. One student said there are only 16 or 17 black students in her graduating class of 223, while another, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ana Maganto Ramirez, said the numbers are about the same for Latinx students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deberry encouraged the students not to give up on their dreams of pursuing social justice. \u201cJust be committed to whatever goal you set for yourself,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFor me, I ended up in law school because I thought the Constitution was the most amazing thing I had ever read,\u201d Deberry said. \u201cI was like, \u2018What?! We were guaranteed these rights? They are self evident? What? Who ever thought of that?\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She said she has dedicated her career to protecting those rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMy unwavering commitment has always been to justice,\u201d she said. It sounds corny, but that is what I decided to do when I <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> corny. That is the benefit of being a kid. You\u2019re like, \u2018I want to uphold the Constitution of the United States doggonit!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>In the photo above, Durham District Attorney Satana Deberry speaks to students at the Duke Law School. Photo by Erin Williams &#8211; The 9th Street Journal<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYeah, law school sucks a little bit, right?\u201d Satana Deberry said to a room full of Duke law students. 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